Exodus 35 Bible Commentary

The Geneva Study Bible

(Read all of Exodus 35)
35:2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy a day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.

(a) In which you shall rest from all bodily work.

35:10 And every wise b hearted among you shall come, and make all that the LORD hath commanded;

(b) See (Exodus 28:3).

35:12 The ark, and the staves thereof, [with] the mercy seat, and the vail of the c covering,

(c) Which hung before the mercyseat so it could not be seen.

35:19 The d cloths of service, to do service in the holy [place], the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.

(d) Such as belong to the service of the tabernacle.

35:25 And all the women that were e wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, [both] of blue, and of purple, [and] of scarlet, and of fine linen.

(e) Who were witty and expert.

35:26 And all the women f whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' [hair].

(f) That is, who were good spinners.

35:29 The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made g by the hand of Moses.

(g) Using Moses as a minister of it.

35:35 Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner h of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, [even] of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.

(h) Belonging to graving or carving, or such like.